I get a little too obsessive with work.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But if they're hunting a deer it's like: "That poor deer!" I know that. I know that guys getting killed is horrible but people have seen it before. You've seen The Evil Dead. With girls, it's like: "I don't want to see that happening..." I know that.